To view the full article, please click here. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, which has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, and religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, at age 49, where he died three years later. Sometime between 15, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. That edition is generally considered the authoritative text, and modern editors usually follow it as their source. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Shakespeare’s Sonnets were first printed in 1609 in a quarto published by Thomas Thorpe. One of the most celebrated poems in the canon, Sonnet 29 casts William Shakespeare in a state of deep and lonely unhappiness, from which the memory of his young lover is able to lift him in spectacular fashion. Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 23, 2019.

His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. LibriVox volunteers bring you 32 recordings of Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare. His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. He is often called England's national poet, and the 'Bard of Avon'. William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

Sonnet 29 by william shakespeare